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No. 6I3,424. J. RIGKEY. Patented Nov. l, l898. STARCHING' MACHINE.

(Application filed Dec. 21, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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JAMES RIOKEY, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNEsorA, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES w. RIOKEY, OFsAME PLAoE.

STARCHING=MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,424, dated November1, 1898.

Application filed December 21, 1897. $erial No. 662,847. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES RICKEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, and State of Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Starching-Machines,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for starching collars, cuffs, and likearticles, and has for its object theproviding of means for driving therollers and aprons, means for guiding the aprons in their movements, andmeans for hereinafter specifically described, and par-' ticularlypointed out in the claims.

The improvements are illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, the casing or vat beingshown in section. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the machine viewed fromthe right of Fig. 1. of the same. Fig. 4 shows a cross-section of one ofthe aprons, and Fig. 5 one of the guiderollers for the apron andthemeans for vertically adjusting it.

In the drawings the frame is indicated by the reference-number 1, andthe casing or vat by 2. These parts may be of any usual or suitable formor material for providing a receptacle for starch in liquid condition.The starch during the operation of starching articles is preferably kepthot by means of steam pipes or otherwise in any usual or convenient way.(Such means, being common, are not shown inthe drawings.) Within or inconnection with the vat are employed the usual cooperating upper andlower aprons 3 and 4, portions of whose surfaces are face to face in thevat, the receiving or feed rollers 5 and 6, the saturating-rollers 7, 8,and 9, (preferably of angular shape,) the delivery-roller 10, andsuitable guide-rollers 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. All of these rollersexcept the deliveryroller 10 and the guide-rollers 12 and 13 aredriving-rollers in addition to the performance Fig. 3 is a plan Viewvide means for driving the operative devices positively in placeofdepending on friction for their operation. To this end the drivingshaft 18, which is mounted on the top of the rear side of the main frame1, carries a sprocket-wheel 19, over which runs an endless chain 20,that engages a sprocket-wheel 21 on the shaft of the feed-roll 6. On theopposite end of the latter shaft is a sprocket-wheel 22, over which runsa chain 23 for driving the saturating-roller 8 and the guide-roller 16,which latter two rollers are thereby made of their'respeotive functlonsas saturating and guide rollers. By these means the two aprons 3 and lare respectively driven in thedirections indicated by arrows.

In order to prevent the lateral shifting or displacement of the apronson their rollers, the edges of the aprons are sewed to endless cords 24,and the rollers or as many of them as may be desirable havecircumferential grooves 25 for receiving the corded edges of the aprons,whereby the aprons are prevented from working laterally toward eitherside or toward the middle. 'As a further means of preventing the lateralshifting of the aprons on the rollers and as a means also ofregulatingthe tension of the apron 3 the guide rollers 14 and 15 have theirhearings in boxes 26, that are carried by screws 27, which are thedrawings, the entire interior operative apparatus (including the frame17, the aprons, the rollers, and driving-chains) may be lifted out andturned over upon the discharge end of the machine, the flexibility ofthe apron and driving-chain permitting this movement withoutdisplacement.

The operation of the devices will probably be readily understood bypersons familiar with this class of machines. The vat being suppliedwith hot liquid starch and the aprons and rollers being driven by power,articles may be fed into the machine, between the rollers 5 and 6, to becarried by the aprons 3 and 4 around the saturating-rollers (which maybe of any suitable form and number) and carried thence upward and out ofthe vat and onward to be discharged by the deliveryroller 10.

I do not desire to limit my protection to the exact forms andarrangements of the devices shown and described; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for starching collars, cuffs and other articles, thecombination with a vat, of a pair of endless aprons, suitable feeding,delivering, guiding and saturating rollers carrying them,sprocket-wheels on one of the feed-rollers, the saturating-rollers andguiderollers respectively, and chains for driving them, adjustable boxesfor one or more of the guide-rollers of the upper apron, and a removableframe within the vat for supporting all of said devices, except thedelivery and the two adjacent guide rollers, in operative positions,substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for starching collars, cuffs and other articles, thecombination with a vat, of upper and lower endless aprons portions ofwhich are face to face in the vat and serve as carriers for thearticles, feeding, guiding and delivering rollers therefor and one ormore polygonal saturating-rollers 00* operating with the aprons in thevat, sprocket- Wheels and endless chains for driving one of thesaturating-rollers one of the feeding and one of the guiding rollers,and a removable frame in the vat upon which said devices, except thedelivery and the two adjacent guidin g rollers, are operatively mounted,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day ofDecember, 1897.

JAMES RICKEY.

In presence of P. H. GUNOKE'L, O. E. KNIGHT.-

